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Antrim Folk Tales by Billy Teare 9781845887865
RRP: €15.46€11.75County Antrim, home to the Giant's Causeway, has a rich heritage of myths and legends which is uniquely captured in this collection of traditional tales from across the county. Featured here are stories of well-known figures from Irish folklore,... -
Clacton-on-Sea by Norman Jacobs 9780752418575
RRP: €15.46€11.75Clacton-on-Sea's motto Lux, Salubritas, Felicitas (Light, Health and Happiness), sums up the main reason for the town's existence. Born in 1871, the brainchild of Victorian entrepreneur Peter Bruff, it was created from nothing to become one of the... -
A Prisoner of War's Story by Stratis Doukas 9786185369668
RRP: €13.08€11.71Smyrna, September 1922: A young Anatolian Greek is taken prisoner at the end of the Greek-Turkish war and marched off into the interior. He recounts his escape and heart-stopping journey through the familiar landscape of his lost homeland, where his... -
Song: A History in 12 Parts by John Potter 9780300263534
RRP: €23.80€20.21From one of our most innovative singers, a vibrant history of song stretching from Hildegard von Bingen and Benjamin Britten to Bjoerk "Songs can be intensely personal (whether you hear them or sing them) and none of us would choose the same twelve... -
The Government of the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook by Barbara Levick
RRP: €45.21€39.72This book reveals how an empire that stretched from Glasgow to Aswan in Egypt could be ruled from a single city and still survive more than a thousand years. The Government of the Roman Empire is the only sourcebook to concentrate on the administration... -
Cradley Heath, Old Hill & District: A Second Selection by Ron Moss
RRP: €15.46€11.75In this second selection of images of Cradley Heath, Old Hill and district, great use has been made of the marvellous old photographs that can be seen in, and are still being deposited at the Sandwell Community History & Archive Service collection in... -
The Birth of Modern Belief: Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment by Ethan H. Shagan
RRP: €26.18€20.98An illuminating history of how religious belief lost its uncontested status in the WestThis landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively... -
Early Medieval Scotland: Individuals, Communities and Ideas by David Clarke
RRP: €29.75€25.73The elaborately carved Hilton of Cadboll stone, the house-shaped Monymusk Reliquary and the sumptuously decorated Hunterston brooch (all on view in the National Museum of Scotland) are evidence of the sophistication of Scottish craftsmen in the time AD... -
Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe by Miri Rubin 9781108740531
RRP: €26.17€20.81Cities of Strangers illuminates life in European towns and cities as it was for the settled, and for the 'strangers' or newcomers who joined them between 1000 and 1500. Some city-states enjoyed considerable autonomy which allowed them to legislate on how... -
Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C. by Paul Anthony Rahe
RRP: €32.73€27.72A companion volume to The Spartan Regime and The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta that explores the collapse of the Spartan-Athenian alliance "Provocative, intriguing and cogently argued."-David Stuttard, Classics for All During the Persian Wars,... -
The First Royal Media War: Edward VIII, The Abdication and the Press by Adrian Phillips 9781399065412
RRP: €29.75€21.30The abdication crisis of 1936 demolished the wall of silent deference that had protected the British royal family from press comment and intrusion since the days of Queen Victoria. King Edward VIII was a child of the burgeoning age of media and the first... -
The Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas F. Madden 9781442215757
RRP: €47.60€42.25What is the relationship between the medieval crusades and the problems of the modern Middle East? Were the crusades the Christian equivalent of Muslim jihad? In this sweeping yet crisp history, Thomas F. Madden offers a brilliant and compelling... -
The Making of Polities: Europe, 1300-1500 by John Watts 9780521796644
RRP: €32.12€28.37This major survey of political life in late medieval Europe provides a framework for understanding the developments that shaped this turbulent period. Rather than emphasising crisis, decline, disorder or the birth of the modern state, this account... -
The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon by Professor Glenda Sluga
RRP: €35.70€28.63The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global order In 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating... -
Monty and the Canadian Army: A Military Triumph by John A. English
RRP: €33.31€29.65General Bernard Law Montgomery, affectionately known as "Monty," exerted an influence on the Canadian Army more lasting than that of any other Second World War commander. In 1942 he assumed responsibility for the exercise and training of Canadian... -
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up by Mary Beard 9780520277168
RRP: €29.75€23.41What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear--a world of wit, irony, and knowing... -
The Royal Navy and Maritime Power in the Twentieth Century Ian Speller 9781138873445
RRP: €59.49€52.17This book adopts an innovative new approach to examine the role of maritime power and the utility of navies. It uses a number of case studies based upon key Royal Navy operations in the twentieth century to draw out enduring principles about maritime... -
Schooling in Renaissance Italy: Literacy and Learning, 1300-1600 by Paul F. Grendler
RRP: €35.70€35.56'About the AuthorPaul F. Grendler is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Toronto and former president of the Renaissance Society of America. He is the editor-in-chief of the prize-winning Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and author of... -
The Somme Also Including the Coward by Arthur Donald Gristwood 9781612003801
RRP: €10.70€7.91'The million British dead have left no books behind. What they felt as they died hour by hour in the mud, or were choked horribly with gas, or relinquished their reluctant lives on stretchers, no witness tells. But here is a book that almost tells it....... -
Putin and the Oligarch: The Khodorkovsky-Yukos Affair by Richard Sakwa 9781780764597
€59.37The arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of the Yukos oil company, on 25 October 2003, was a key turning point in modern Russian history. At that time Khodorkovsky was one of the world's richest and most powerful men, while Yukos had been transformed... -
The Valkyries' Loom: The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic by Michele Hayeur Smith 9780813080116
RRP: €32.07€22.07Using textiles to understand gender and economy in Norse societiesIn The Valkyries' Loom, Michele Hayeur Smith examines Viking textiles as evidence of the little-known work of women in the Norse colonies that expanded from Scandinavia across the North... -
Enduring the Great War: Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918 by Alexander Watson 9780521123082
RRP: €36.88€33.65This book is an innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War. Unlike existing literature, which emphasises the strength of societies or military institutions, this study argues that at the... -
Blundering to Glory: Napoleon's Military Campaigns by Owen S. Connelly 9780742553187
RRP: €45.22€40.20Renowned for its accuracy, brevity, and readability, this book has long been the gold standard of concise histories of the Napoleonic Wars. Now in an updated and revised edition, it is unique in its portrayal of one of the world's great generals as a... -
The Habsburgs: The History of a Dynasty by Benjamin Curtis
€32.25The Habsburgs rank among the most celebrated ruling dynasties in history. At one point, their territories stretched not only across Europe but across the globe, into Asia, Africa and the Americas. By virtue of their long pre-eminence, the family made an... -
The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution by Alfred Cobban 9780521667678
RRP: €27.36€23.28Alfred Cobban's The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution is one of the acknowledged classics of post-war historiography. This 'revisionist' analysis of the French Revolution caused a furore on first publication in 1964, challenging as it did... -
The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: AD 395-700 by Averil Cameron 9780415579612
RRP: €52.35€45.74This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman... -
The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture, 1936-1946 by Martin Conway 9781845208219
€50.33The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture 1936-1946 presents the first investigation of how the phenomenon of political legitimacy operated within Europe's political cultures during the period of the Second World War. Amidst the upheavals of that... -
The Bogomils: A Study in Balkan Neo-Manichaeism by Dimitri Obolensky 9780521607636
RRP: €27.36€24.59The Bogomils: A Study in Balkan Neo-Manichaeism traces the development of this little-understood heresy from its Middle Eastern roots. The Bogomils derived elements of their doctrine and practice from the Manichaeans and the Paulicians. By the reign of... -
The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova by Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova
RRP: €27.36€24.66Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova (1743-1810), Russian princess, playwright, author, President of the Academy of Sciences, and founder and Director of the Russian Academy, was one of the first women in Europe to hold public office. Her memoir, among the... -
The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire by Patrick Balfour Kinross 9780688080938
RRP: €23.79€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688080938Author Patrick Balfour KinrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 638Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield 9780520281783
RRP: €29.75€23.79Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different... -
Anticorruption in History: From Antiquity to the Modern Era by Ronald Kroeze
RRP: €39.85€36.99Anticorruption in History is a timely and urgent volume: corruption is widely seen today as a major problem we face as a global society, undermining trust in government and financial institutions, economic efficiency, the principle of equality before the... -
Roman Imperialism: A Concise History of the Rise and Expansion of Ancient Rome by Dexter Hoyos
RRP: €47.60€36.43Rome - Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks... -
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: €29.74€26.67The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient... -
Roman Forts in Britain by Paul Bidwell 9780752441078
RRP: €29.75€22.40More than a tenth of the Roman army's total strength was stationed in Britain. Focusing on the auxiliary forts that were occupied from the second century onwards, this work looks at: the plans and functions of forts; the everyday life of officers and... -
The Hitler State by Martin Broszat 9780582489974
€63.64Interpretative study of the Hitler state now available in English. Important contribution to the study of totalitarian states. Reviews'We are fortunate that at long last this book is available to English-speaking students.'The Times Higher Education... -
The Spanish Republic at War 1936-1939 by Helen Graham 9780521459327
RRP: €36.88€31.93This 2002 book is a comprehensive analysis of the forces of the Spanish left - interpreted broadly - during the civil war of 1936-9, and the first of its kind for more than thirty years. It argues two crucial propositions. First, that the wartime... -
Kinver & Enville: The Photographic Collection by Bob Clarke
RRP: €20.22€16.10Today's village of Kinver first made an appearance in 736 AD as Cynibre. Despite being close to the Black Country and having a flourishing iron working industry from the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, the village avoided the spread of... -
The Writing on the Wall by Juliet Rieden
RRP: €16.65€12.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760559489Author Juliet RiedenFormat PaperbackImprint Macmillan AustraliaPublisher Pan Macmillan AustraliaWeight(grams) 444gDimensions(mm) 155mm * 233mm *... -
Western Warfare In The Age Of The Crusades, 1000-1300 John France 9781857284676
RRP: €45.21€40.03In 1095 the First Crusade was launched, establishing a great military endeavour which was a central preoccupation of Europeans until the end of the thirteenth century. In Western warfare in the age of the Crusades, 1000-1300 John France offers a...